My Life Next Door
When Samantha, the seventeen-year-old daugher of a wealthy, perfectionistic, Republican state senator, falls in love with the boy next door, whose family is large, boisterous, and just making ends meet, she discovers a different way to live, but when her mother is involved in a hit-and-run accident Sam must make some difficult choices.
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Sam Reed has spent her life watching the loud, sprawling Garrett family next door from her bedroom window, while her senator mother's house stays perfectly quiet. One night the oldest Garrett boy climbs onto her roof to say hi.
Yes. My Life Next Door is YA contemporary romance, suitable for readers 13 and up. There is some on-page sexual content (mostly fade to black) but no explicit scenes.
Yes. Huntley Fitzpatrick wrote The Boy Most Likely To, a companion novel set in the same town and featuring side characters from My Life Next Door. Each can be read on its own.
My Life Next Door was written by Huntley Fitzpatrick, published in 2012 by Speak.
My Life Next Door is 432 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, My Life Next Door takes most readers 6 to 9 hours to finish.
My Life Next Door is a standalone novel by Huntley Fitzpatrick, not part of a series.
My Life Next Door is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
